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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... of this tale points out how the hero Ivan might have avoided the terrible consequences of a quarrel with his neighbor (which grew out of nothing) if ... ...moral to which we all might profitably give heed. He illustrates the awful consequences of intemperance, and concludes that only kind treatment can re... ... from the fact that my father and my mother did not deceive each other. In consequence of this, I had built from childhood a dream of high and poetica... ...pating debauchery, but in favoring it, by assuring the harmlessness of the consequences. Besides, it is not a question of that. It is a question of th... ...lt of activity. The object of activ- ity cannot consist in suppressing its consequences. The object of Man, as of Humanity, is happiness, and, to atta... ...r than marriage, evidently the human race will come to an end. But, if the logical conclusion of the argument is that the human race will become extin...

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The Perfect Wagnerite : A Commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs

By: George Bernard Shaw

...chievousness, cruelty, and utter incapacity for sympathy as the inevitable consequence of his magnificent bodily and mental health. In short, though m... ...ild and Siegfried. He would certainly not have thought this a matter of no consequence had he finished the whole work ten years ear- lier. It must alw... ...ed into the key of actual life Night Falls On The Gods would have been the logical con- summation of Das Rheingold and The Valkyrie instead of the ope... ... exactly as we deify the creative force of the universe, by attributing to logical design what is the result of blind instinct. What Wagner meant by “... ...sign in this respect. Thus the second stave is usually a perfectly obvious consequence of the first; and the third and fourth an exact or very slightl... ...of the theme is an intel- 96 The Perfect Wagnerite ligent and interesting consequence of the recurrence of the dramatic phenomenon which it denotes. ... ...from the first note to the last as the untrammelled themes of The Ring. In consequence, it used to be professorially demanded that all dramatic music ...

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The Doctors Dilemma

By: George Bernard Shaw

...lacing them I put Ridgeon’s tube where Muldooley’s ought to have been. The consequence was that I inoculated the typhoid case for tetanus and the teta... ...ur sake. Sir Colenso Ridgeon will be in his proper place, in the bacterio- logical laboratory. I shall be in my proper place, at the bed- side. Your h...

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Autobiography

By: John Stuart Mill

...Fettercairn, one of the Bar ons of the Exchequer in Scotland, and was, in consequence, sent to the University of Edinburgh, at the expense of a fund ... ... expression on the other), and had re duced it to rules, grounded on the logical analysis of a sen tence. These rules he strongly impressed upon me... ...e as anyone that Christians do not, in general, undergo the de moralizing consequences which seem inherent in such a creed, in the manner or to the e... ...eory involving a contradiction in terms, prevents them from perceiving the logical conse quences of the theory. Such is the facility with which man ... ...other, and so few are those who draw from what they receive as truths, any consequences but those recom mended to them by their feelings, that multit... ... fact. This point in my early education had, however, incidentally one bad consequence deserving notice. In giving me an opinion contrary to that of t... ...er, my father put into my hands Condillac’s Traité des Sensations, and the logical and meta physical volumes of his Cours d’Etudes; the first (notwi... ...ervice to me, by compelling precision in conceiving and expressing psycho logical doctrines, whether accepted as truths or only regarded as the opini... ...a desire to promote the exercise of other mental faculties than the purely logical, he advised me to make my next exercise in composition one of the o...

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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

...hich are most strongly evident in the art of De Maupassant. We now see the consequences which were inevitable by reason of them, endowed as Maupassant... ...e exact still because the half-civilized person is often impulsive and, in consequence, the physical easily predominates. There, as elsewhere, the deg... ...angerous pessimism that pervades some of his later work. This was partly a consequence of his honesty and partly of mental despair. He never accepted ... ...ection of proper names, or of verbs, or of numbers, or merely of dates, in consequence of an accident. The localization of all the avenues of thought ... ...ng, delicate hands of a sensual prelate—and exclaimed: “That is absolutely logical, and I should like to be in their place.” 201 Selected Writings TH... ... illness was, and were told that she had been in bed for fifteen years, in consequence of terrible grief. No doubt they did not believe it, and though... ... * “It would be useless to enter into all the psycho- 220 De Maupassant logical details which marked the course of my pas- sion for the Countess, a...

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Best of Four

By: David Retz

... because of this. They don’t care what they do, nor do they care about the consequences. I believe that because my mom was there, she taught me the th... ...as and statistics have come from is an act of plagiarism. Serious academic consequences can result from such behavior, and it is a federal crime to co... ...rents that the police cited me for underage drinking. I never knew all the consequences of drinking and I chose the wrong way to find them out. I’m no... ... I’m not sure I could have handled. The campus was notified, adding to the consequences I had to accept. Even though we were caught off campus, the ca... ...Segments, whether sec- tions or paragraphs, are fully developed and follow logically from what precedes them. Headings and subheadings are appropri- a... ... has an effective introduction and conclusion. The order of information is logical, and the reader can follow it because of well-chosen transitions. P... ... can follow it because of well-chosen transitions. Paragraph divisions are logical, and the paragraphs use enough specific detail to make their point ...

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